I'm a freelance writer, grad student, and night owl. I share weekly actions anyone can take to fight back against 45's administration. Twitter: @nightowlactivst Member of the Action Alliance: actionalliance.co

3/13/2017

Nightly Actions for Monday, March 13th, 2017

Healthcare - Affordable Care Act
By now you've heard all about the Republican plan to "replace" the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the "American Health Care Act," which would lead to massive tax breaks for the rich and loss of healthcare for millions of Americans. Well, today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that the new plan, which is being called "Trumpcare" by the media, but which I like to refer to as "Don't Care," would cause 24 million Americans to lose their health insurance by 2026. Here's how you can speak out against Don't Care and help protect the ACA.

Call your members of Congress. Use the following links to call your members of Congress (MoC) and urge them to reject Don't Care and fight for the ACA:

45's executive orders have led to thousands of undocumented immigrants being detained and deported by ICE agents in continuing raids and a culture of fear and xenophobia. Here's how you can help fight 45's anti-immigrant agenda and support immigrants in your community.

Share the Notifica app. Notifica is a new smartphone app that acts as a portable panic button for immigrants targeted by raids. It allows people to select contacts they would want to notify in case of emergency and pre-load personalized messages to each recipient. A single click deploys the messages by text in less than two seconds. Read more here and share this link with your friends and family: http://notifica.us/

Last week, newly-elected EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt stated that he does not agree that carbon dioxide is "a primary contributor" in climate change, going against 97% of scientists, including those in his own agency, who agree that carbon dioxide is in fact a primary contributor. Today, the American Meteorological Society wrote a letter to Pruitt disputing his misinformed claim.

With a climate-denier running the EPA and 45 and Republicans in Congress working to repeal important environmental regulations—and even eliminate the EPA entirely—it's clear that our environment is under attack. Here's how you can help protect it.

Call your senators. 45's proposed budget includes a 10% increase to the defense budget and a 25% decrease in funding for the EPA. Use the following link to call your senators and tell them to stop the EPA budget slash to increase military spending:https://5calls.org/#issue/rec5cebyetMGhqGQ6

The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings on Gorsuch on March 20th. Gorsuch is an extreme anti-choice, anti-LGBT judge with a history of interfering with reproductive rights and health and ruling against students with disabilities. Here's how you can help block his confirmation:

Sign a petition. The Brady Bill put in place criminal background checks at federally licensed dealers designed to prevent dangerous people from purchasing guns. Sign the following petition to demand Brady background checks for all gun sales:https://secure.ngpvan.com/Ekal5ph2tkmZW7QpupD5Qg2

March 21st - Facebook Live Interview with Jon Ossoff: On Tuesday, March 21st, at 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT, Flippable is hosting a Facebook live interview with Jon Ossoff, Democratic candidate for Georgia's Sixth District, to discuss his campaign for the special election on April 18th. RSVP for the event and submit a question for Ossoff here:https://www.facebook.com/events/389900364720121/

ACLU People Power Resistance Training: On Saturday, the ACLU introduced their new People Power campaign with a live Resistance Training event. If you missed the livestream, you can watch a recording of it here: https://peoplepower.org/?akid=1908.16269.kK_6tv

Online Privacy: Sign this petition to tell the Senate not to overturn an FCC resolution that requires companies to get permission before selling your private information:https://action.aclu.org/secure/FCC-privacy

Class-Action Lawsuits: Sign this petition to oppose a bill that would make it harder for people to join class-action lawsuits against corporations: https://actionsprout.io/C17801

Resistance Tools

Resistbot: Resistbot is a textbot that makes it easy to send messages to your MoC. Just text Resist to 50409 and Resistbot will ask you a series of questions to make your voice heard in Congress in less than five minutes. Learn more here: https://resistbot.io/